Thanks for the post, I finally found the tutorial section yesterday, running the sample games is easy now.
I modified the asteroid game yesterday to have a grass back ground and flying bugs in place of asteroids and a frog rather than a ship etc, just stupid simple stuff but it helped me to gain a little understanding and the kids have had a blast with the changes.
This morning I went downloaded Gimp 2 so that I could do more with images and changed my bugs to fish and changed the grass to an ocean and was able to use transparency in my images, looks a lot better now…
Today I am studying the creation of an executable game file using packpanda and what not. Thanks for the help.